A huge car bomb destroyed a five-story hotel in central Baghdad on March 17. U.S. forces and Iraqi ambulances hurried to the scene to help. Rescuers could be seen pulling bodies from the rubble of the Hotel Jabal Lebanon. At least 17 people were killed.

A huge car bomb destroyed a five-story hotel in central Baghdad on March 17. U.S. forces and Iraqi ambulances hurried to the scene to help. Rescuers could be seen pulling bodies from the rubble of the Hotel Jabal Lebanon. At least 17 people were killed. (AP/Jerome Delay)